ON THE FARCE DAY OF CHRISTMAS
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023
A divorced couple set madcap hijinks in motion by pretending their split never happened in Ken Levine’s On The Farce Day Of Christmas, not just a wild and wacky comedic ride but a tasty treat for those seeking something fresh and new for the holidays.
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METEOR SHOWER
Saturday, November 25th, 2023
Leave it to “a wild and crazy guy” like Steve Martin to write a wild and crazy play like Meteor Shower, the deliciously quirky, stealthily surreal hour-long gem now tickling audiences at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Sunday, October 22nd, 2023
Musical Theatre West’s splendiferously performed revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound Of Music makes it abundantly clear why the 1959 Broadway smash is a bona fide musical theater classic.
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DEATHTRAP
Saturday, October 21st, 2023
International City Theatre winds up its 2023 season with Ira Levin’s Broadway suspense classic Deathtrap, guaranteeing audiences an abundance of thrills and chills and gasp-worthy plot twists amidst an equal bounty of laughs.
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EXIT WOUNDS
Saturday, August 26th, 2023
A father at the end of his rope seeks help for his delinquent teenage son from a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty-five years in Wendy Graf’s compelling, cathartic family drama Exit Wounds, now getting an absorbing World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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THE WIZARD OF OZ
Monday, July 10th, 2023Musical Theatre West serves up over two-and-a-half hours of nostalgic G-rated family entertainment with The Wizard Of Oz, a summer musical best enjoyed by children twelve and under and parents who don’t mind tagging along.
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INTO THE BREECHES!
Monday, June 12th, 2023
Playwright George Brant reinvigorates the backstage comedy with Into The Breeches!, his crowd-pleasing look at a theater company that refused to go under when its male actors went off to do battle in World War II.
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UNDER THE SKIN
Monday, May 8th, 2023
A philandering father suffering from kidney failure. An estranged daughter ill-inclined to donate one of her own. A tearjerker-movie-of-the-week plot-propeller if there ever was one, but one that has inspired an honest-to-goodness comedy, Michael Hellinger’s Under The Skin, the terrific latest from International City Theatre.
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